MLM Strategies For Network Marketing

Recently I sat through a Pre-Paid Legal presentation at my hospice services workplace. As I listened, I was reminded of all of the many multilevel marketing or MLM presentations I have endured over my 30 years of pastoring local churches.

Those mlm opportunity sessions have covered the gamut of products. Usually they were high pressure events that for the most part used what I considered deceptive mlm strategies to get people to attend and then to join up in what is usually referred to as a mlm downline.

Included was a scenario on how to build your downline (sales people you sponsored), that if followed, would have everyone in the world signing up under you in 3 or 4 months (or so their faulty math suggested).

What I noticed about most MLM'ers was that they were so locked into pushing their product line onto everyone else in the church that they actually drove people away. For the most part they were just endured.

If I were to join a network marketing opportunity or submit to what you are being told is a surefire mlm opportunity, I would certainly read a recently release MLM book entitled The Renegade Network Marketer.

Had those in my congregations used the suggested mlm strategies, I believe they would have been far more effective network marketers, turning people on to their products rather than turning people off, not only to the mlm product they were pushing, but to the entire concept of mlm, thus becoming more effective multilevel marketers.

Onward with purpose,
Chaplain Paul Slater

Mortgage Foreclosure, Refinance Mortgage, or Short Sale

Three Possible Solutions: Mortgage Foreclosure, Refinance Mortgage, or Short Sale

Southern California is seeing more homeowners facing foreclosure in these uncertain financial times. Truth is many of us cannot make our mortgage payments.

The challenge for most of us is readjustment of the 100% Adjustable Rate Mortgages we took out to buy our homes in the last few years.

For many of us, out payments have adjusted up and the value of our homes has gone down.

So now what. Yes, we have tried to refinance and are on our 5th lender. The challenge is loan to value of the home. A friend of mine says that there are 7 or 8 empty houses on his street alone where people just walked away. His house, just 2 or 3 years old, is valued at $100,000 less than what is owing on an adjustable rate mortgage, now up to over 11% interest rate and soon to adjust again.

The impact on careers is phenomenal. The mortgage industry has experienced major layoffs, with some mortgage companies going under. Some of the mortgage brokers we dealt with are no longer with the lender they worked for.

The only thing saving our building trade industry is the construction jobs after the wild fires we experienced in San Diego.

So back to the mortgage strategy challenge. What option do we choose -- Mortgage Foreclosure, Refinance Mortgage, or Short Sale.

Onward with purpose,

Chaplain Paul Slater

Pastor Appreciation Gift Ideas

Pastor Appreciation Gift Ideas are often sought after since October is Pastor Appreciation Month.

I have to admit that my motivation was to help churches honor their pastor, since one of the key factors in pastors leaving the ministry is often feeling unappreciated.

Some meaningful pastor appreciation gifts give to me and my family have been family vacations, bed and breakfast lodging, and maybe someday, a family cruise.

I have been so busy in my new career as a hospice chaplain that I have not been able to keep my church focused website up like I wanted to.

Recently I thought that perhaps I could have other people write my website content by sharing their pastor appreciation gift ideas. So I asked readers to Share Pastor Appreciation Gift Ideas.

I created the following invitation: Would you Share your Pastor Appreciation Gift Ideas? Tell us how you honored your pastor, expressing your appreciation through special appreciation gifts.

What I wanted was for readers to take the opportunity to creatively communicate how they made Pastor Appreciation Month special through their appreciation gift ideas.

What I hoped would happen is by having readers share gift giving ideas would prompt other churches to remember to pay tribute to their pastor by giving special pastor appreciation gifts to honor their pastor.

Becoming Solution Focused In A Problem Focused World

Best Web Design Tools Ineffective When Motivation Blockage Occurs:

I guess it happens to lots of blogging type folks --becoming brainblog dead. Not sure why this happens but happen it does.

Nothing to do with available material to write. Just look at the stuff on your computer hard drive. If that is not enough, check out your inbox on your email program.

If you are still in need of writing material, what anyone else has written can always be addressed with a "my response to" type article.

So if it isn't lack of material, what could it be that ties up the brain cells and blocks the free flow of ideas? After all, most blogging is just personal opinion.

Mental and Motivational Burnout

Just like when Career Burnout takes place, ones motivational juices stop flowing. Many experience compassion fatigue in careers in social work, counseling careers, and even ministry careers. So it seems to me passion fatigue could take place as well.

Of course, if one has passion for faith, or for writing, or for a career, can you call it passion if it wains somewhere along the journey? All the more reason to monitor one's passions. We only have so much energy.

Let's face it -- our capacity to juggle the many interests of life is a factor too. I for one take on too many projects at a time. Add to that the fact that I usually end up making my endeavors far more complicated than they need to be. Remember the KISS principle? (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

Simplicity Easier Than I Realize

When it comes to writing, website themes, and even changing careers, the key is to address whatever is on our plates at the moment. The key for me is to be an idea broker addressing the problems of life common to many.

What am I facing that is common to the human family? I can think of several problems needing a solution:

• A need to lose weight,
• facing the mortgage refinance dilemma,
• preparing for retirement,
• how to earn extra income.

So, Onward to simplicity,

Chaplain Paul Slater

Careers Health Care - New Career Opportunities

Careers Health Care Provides

48 Days Career Coaching Connection reveals I too am exploring a new career opportunity. I am continually amazed at the careers health care provides to those of us wanting to change careers with purpose.

A new career for me would need to be a compatible career to my present health care position, work I find meaningful and truly with purpose. Becoming a career coach actually focuses on what I already do as I work with those with careers in health care.

Purposeful Careers In Health Care

The careers health care opens up to those who feel called to a vocation committed to healing is considered to be the largest field with new career opportunities. For those wanting a new career with purpose, careers in health care are financially rewarding as well as purposefully rewarding.

Onward with purpose,

Chaplain Paul Slater

Check out these great materials to help you in exploring health care careers

Timing Of Career Change

When to change careers is always a challenge for those with questions about employment in the future.

In talking to those I work with who have chosen a Social Work Career, the conversation today was on how long my social work co-workers will work in their career as social workers.

"I want to be in the field of social work the rest of my life" was the consensus of the medical social workers I share an office with. Notice the reference to the field of social work, because there is a very large social work arena with hundreds of social work opportunities for the enterprising social worker.

More to come on this unique, need meeting career with purpose called social work.

Onward and upward,

Chaplain Paul L. Slater

How to become a chaplain and chaplain training were on the chaplain career menu

How to become a chaplain and chaplain training were on the chaplain career menu: "A Breakfast That Changed My Life By Launching My Chaplain Career"

I share my career change story here, telling how to become a chaplain, describe chaplain training requirements, why I became a chaplain, what prompted me to consider a chaplain career, in fact, I share just about anything related to chaplaincy.

On this page I share how in late October of 2000, a man who had pastored with me a number of years previously in Western Washington, challenged me to consider how to become a chaplain.

I admit that we were both victims of pastor burnout, saying that "neither of us used that term (pastor burnout) nor did we see the positives in negative pastoral problems."

The focus of this specific website is the challenge other pastors, many who are experiencing pastoral burnout, to think about a chaplain career by reading about My 'Change Career Journey' to Chaplaincy.

I need to do more with this page and develop the concept of how to become a chaplain since I typically have more that 100 visits to this page each month.

Several ideas I have had is to write an e-book on becoming a chaplain, using the material so readily available throughout the internet as chaplaincy resource material. Another career change idea I have is to develop a separate website focusing on chaplaincy as a career.

Onward with purpose,

Chaplain Paul Slater

ps - I have recently launched a new website focusing on a pastor appreciation theme, Pastor-appreciation.net